[Nix-dev] Re: Current stdenv is Broken in Absence of Substitutors

[Shea Levy]

On 09/05/2011 06:11 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Shea Levy<shea at shealevy.com>  skribis:
>
>> Due to a license issue, the GNU mirrors no longer contain
>> binutils-2.21.tar.bz2
>> (http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-08/msg00198.html).
> Recent Emacs releases had a similar problem:
>
>    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-07/msg01155.html
>
> Ludo’.
>
> _______________________________________________
> nix-dev mailing list
> nix-dev at cs.uu.nl
> https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
According to my reading of the two threads, nixos.org can be considered 
in violation of the GPL by hosting the binutils sources on its servers. 
Is that understanding correct?

~Shea